I've developed a SSIS ETL job/workflow to scan for new files in a folder and load the data from the new file into a SQL Server table. This job basically implements searches for a file with a predefined file name pattern in a predefined folder location. I followed all the steps mentioned here. However, the tricky part is that my company uses Box.com for file storage and the particular folder where the SSIS job has to search for new files is on Box.com. When I use my local Box-Sync Path and run the job on my local machine, I am able to execute the entire package successfully and load the new data into the required table. However, when I deploy this job in the SSIS Catalog and try to run it from the Server, the job fails as the SQL Server is unable to resolve the local Box-Sync Path that's specific to my machine.
Could anyone suggest which path I should be using to get rid of this error and schedule the job successfully on the Server.
TIA.
You will need to create a Box-Sync path on a server that your SSIS agent has access to and use either a UNC path to that Sync folder, or a path that is local to your SSIS Server.
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I have deployed a SSIS Package to the Integration Services Catalogs. The issue that I am having is that the flat files are generated locally on the server itself instead of on File server. The path for file generation is given as File server path but still the files are generated locally only.
you can you set variable to set location of folder
https://www.techbrothersit.com/2013/12/ssis-export-files-from-sql-table-to.html
I have built a package that downloads one or more files from an FTP site to a local directory, deletes all from the FTP, then imports the files into SQL, timestamps the files, then moves it to an archive directory.
Because there can be one or more files I used variables for both source and destination, and put the various tasks in FOR EACH loops.
In BIDS it works fine, but when I run this from SQL Agent, it fails saying
FTP Task Directory is not specified in the file connection manager
Control Flow
Error screenshot
Why would it run successfully in BIDS but not when scheduled as an SSIS job?
Background
Created package in BIDS.
Deployed to SSMS
Package writes files to a CSV file in a network fileserver.
The default name of the package's flat file destination is $path\workcsvout.csv
Package derives filename from an expression
Issue
When I configure and run from SSMS, it fails with Error DFT -Extract to File:Error:Cannot open the datafile "........\DerivedFilename.
Troubleshooting
Verified the file exists in directory - used flat file destination temp filename, before derived filename - still failed
changed name to file it was trying to open - still failed
I am running job from my login in SSMS, via SSISDB - Projects - Package - .dtsx package - Execute
See pictures below and advise if more information is needed.
Thanks
Ensure Visual Studio isn't open after attempting to either run the package directly from the Integration Services Catalog as I have found that VS can hang onto a connection to the files you are writing to and it can throw similar errors.
Ensure the account configured for the package has sufficient permissions in all the areas it needs to write to.
After VS is closed and permissions are all set in step 2, try executing the package directly inside the Integration Services Catalog in SSMS. If this works, move to step 4. If this doesn't work, troubleshoot the errors and ensure security is all setup properly and you are executing the package with the same account.
If you are here, I will assume you want to schedule the package. Ensure that the owner is the same account used in step 2. Check the "Run As" account in Step in the job, if that account is not the same as step 2 then you either need to make it the same or give that account the same access as the account used in step 2.
I went through this troubleshooting process and it solved my issue. I also was building files on a general UNC file path like \servername\folder\folder without needing to do any local business with \servername\d$\folder\folder that other people recommend.
I would check to make sure that your SQL Server service account has full rights to the landing folder.
After experiencing the same issue as you, I finally checked the folder permissions that were created for our SQL Server service account. Come to find out that it was missing the "Full Control" and "Modify" folder permissions. Once I granted these to our service account, the issue went away.
Folder Permissions Dialog Box
Troubleshooting:
Can you try to create file on local and then move the file using File System Task.
I was trying to pump the data which is in csv file.
Closing the visual studio and closing the csv file which was opened in another machine resolved the problem
I'm fairly new to SSIS and am having trouble figuring out something that seems like it should be straight forward:
On server A, I have 10 files in "C:\SourceFiles\Patients" (these files are PDFs). I know the names of these 10 files and they won't change. Also, there is a server B which is the DB server and is where the SSIS package will be located. My goal is to loop through a DB table containing patients, add some patient data to the 10 source files (renaming the file) and then save this new file to server A.
I have most of this running already. Currently, all of this is happening in a script task using ADO.NET for the DB access (I'm already accessing the DB table on server B) and I'm accessing the source files on my local C drive.
I am having trouble figuring out how to specify server A in the Package Configuration for the source files. I have a file connection which specifies an existing folder (C:\SourceFiles\Patients), but it only specifies the location of the folder NOT the server. How to I specify server A for this file connection? Or, how do I use this file connection with a server A connection? I'm having real difficulty grasping this for some reason!!
The technologies I'm using are:
Visual Studio 2008,
C# in the SSIS script task,
ADO.NET in the SSIS script task and
SQL Server Management Studio 2008 (SSIS package will be imported here).
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
I see some issues with what you are trying to do.
PDF is an image format (an image of a document) and as such is not easily manipulated by SSIS. Generally if you are acting on a file from within SSIS, it would be a flat file of some sort, like a CSV or some other text format.
Using a script task to do all of your work within SSIS is failing to use the power of SSIS properly. If all you have in your SSIS project is a script task, you should just be using C# or VB.net directly and not involving SSIS in your project at all.
That all being said, you should access your files on server A using UNC (Universal Naming Convention) paths. You will need to pay close attention to your permissions within SSIS to make this work. When an SSIS job runs, it runs under a specific user, usually the SQL Server Agent user, and that user will need permissions to access the folder on server A remotely. When all of these permissions are set correctly, you can use something akin to \\ServerA\ShareName\Patients\ as the pointer to your directory with pdf's in it.
I have FTP location having 2-3 folders from there i need to pull some files on daily bases using SSIS package please help.
for example:
FTP Detail
Server: ftp.abc.com:21
User: user1
Pwd: pass1
then there is a folder called Mydata and file named price(Date)
now i what to pull that file on my local machine C:\
how can I do this using SSIS?
I'd start with adding an FTP Connection Manager to your package. You will most likely want to create two variables in your package, User and Password and configure the FTP connection manager's expressions tab to use them. Reason being, you may run into issues with running the package via SQL Agent and you will need to supply those values via external configuration. Example 1 of said issue but it's a common problem
Click test and verify the connection manager is working fine.
Next step is to drop an FTP task on your control flow and see if you can master pulling 1 file down. That operation will be "Receive files"
While looking for a good image, I stumbled across this article and that should more than cover everything you will need to know about Using the FTP Task in SSIS 2008